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gear ratios

gear ratios is the plural of gear ratio.

Meaning of gear ratio

Noun

gear ratio (plural gear ratios)

  1. The ratio of the speeds of rotation of two gears, such as any pair that mesh and, especially, the initial and final gears in a gear train (whose relationship incorporates all the intermediate ones).
    • Two versions exist of the new locomotives, for passenger and for freight work respectively, the technical difference between the two lying in the gearing of the bogies; the passenger locomotives, in light green and pearl grey livery, have a 25:64 gear ratio to haul 12-coach, 450-ton trains at 87...1962 October, “Beyond the Channel: Italy: New series of E646 electrics”, in Modern Railways, page 276

Questions about gear ratios

What is gear ratios the plural of?
Gear ratios is the plural of gear ratio.

Words near gear ratios in the dictionary

  1. gear oil
  2. gear oils
  3. gear queer
  4. gear queers
  5. gear ratio
  6. gear ratios
  7. gear shift
  8. gear shifts
  9. gear stick
  10. gear sticks
  11. gear to

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